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Date: 05 October 2008 14:08:54
Lying in bed coughing and sniffing while your other half is coughing and hacking and sniffing and tossing and turning and generally keeping you awake. That's why it has been rather quite for the last few days - we're not well you know.
Even though she was ill FW still managed to do a few hours at job no. 2. A colleague called yesterday to say that they needed cover as she had been "sick all over the office". So, as ill as she was, FW went and did a few hours until the nightshift came in.
I managed to stay home, lie on the sofa and watch the rugby and Rob Roy - I'm not well you know. I thought I was over the worst of it until about 3 o'clock this morning when it all came back. I'm much better than FW though - who is still hacking and coughing upstairs, while I endure recuperative West Ham.
History Today:
1930: The British airship, R101, crashes at the edge of a wood near Beauvais, in France, killing 48 of the 54 passengers - including the Aviation Minister Lord Thompson.
1936: The jarrow March begins with 200 men from impoverished Tyneside marching to lobby parliament for work.
1969: The BBC screen the first Monty Python's Flying Circus, which soon becomes an international success. Altogether now.... "I wish to register a complaint!"
1974: 5 people are killed and 65 injured when the IRA bomb two pubs in Guildford.
1986: Mordechai Vanunu leaks dertails of Israel's secret nuclear programme to The Times. He subsequently spends a substantial time in jail and is still monitored by the Israeli security services following his release.
1989: The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet, is awareded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent campaign to end Chinese rule of Tibet.
1994: 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple sect commit suicide in Switzerland.
1999: Two trains collide near Paddington Station, killing 31 people.
2000: Wanted for war crimes, Slobodan Moilosevic resigns as president of Serbia in a row over vote-rigging.